| Description |
1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Series |
The Basics Series |
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The Basics Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the reader -- 1 The raw material: language knowledge -- The EL in ELT -- Substance -- The stuff of language -- Sounds -- Intonation -- Writing -- Form -- Words -- Grammar -- Lexicogrammar -- Meaning -- Health, safety, and dinosaurs -- What do you mean? -- Completing the language puzzle -- The discourse process -- Discourse in the classroom -- Templates and genres -- Writing, speaking, or both at once? -- English in the world -- From variation to varieties |
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Accents and dialects -- Then what? -- Further reading -- 2 Language skills -- Knowledge and skill -- The communication matrix -- Listening -- A stream of sound -- Before, during, and after -- Talking back -- Box-ticking -- The two-sided coin -- Whose voice? -- Speaking -- Go with the flow -- Tell me -- Who's listening? -- Mind the gap -- Things to consider -- Reading -- Why read? -- Strategies -- Texts: easy or hard? -- Texts: keep it simple? -- Writing -- Pens and keyboards -- Time delay -- Audience design -- Product and process -- The fifth skill -- Further reading |
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3 The main actors: learners and learning -- Who are our learners? -- An early start -- Natalia the communicator -- School and peers -- In at the deep end -- Growing up -- CLIL -- The teens -- Adult learners -- Pathways -- A busy life -- Natalia's mother -- The third age -- Levels and labels -- EFL? ESL? -- More pathways -- Moving through ABC -- Can-do and corpora -- How does it happen? -- Acquisition -- All in the mind? -- SLA: happening or doing? -- Language out there -- A socio-cultural angle -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 4 Syllabuses, materials, methods -- Organising learning |
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Curriculum and syllabus -- Organising a syllabus -- Grammar at the centre -- Vocabulary -- The lexical syllabus -- Taken to task -- Tasks to the fore -- A mixed grill -- Materials -- Material issues -- Are they real? -- Do they work? -- Methodology -- Fashions come and go -- What lies beyond? -- Further reading -- 5 Being a teacher -- Organising your work -- The classroom -- Planning the lesson -- Classroom management -- You and your colleagues -- Native and expert users -- Observation -- You and your students -- The human factor -- Intelligence -- Power, roles, relationships -- Identities |
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We are what we say -- Just you and me -- Doing language teaching -- So far -- PPP? III? TBL? Please notice -- Error correction -- Grammar in the classroom -- Simplicity to complexity -- Power of the -ing form -- Vocabulary: in the mind and in use -- Getting to the core -- Realistic goals -- All in the mind -- Pronunciation -- Whose pronunciation? -- Intonation plus pronunciation -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 6 Classroom interaction -- Interacting -- Talking the talk -- Easy as 1, 2, 3 -- SETT: self evaluation of teacher talk -- Managerial mode -- Materials mode -- Skills and systems mode |
| Summary |
ELT: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English language teaching for EFL/ESL teachers in training, early career teachers, those considering taking up ELT, and experienced teachers who may want to read about the way the profession has developed and continues to evolve |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Classroom context mode |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walsh, Steve
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| ISBN |
9781000966213 |
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1000966216 |
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